When Patterson was at Temple University, she insisted on swimming when her white teammates swam and not being limited to the hour when the pool was available to Black swimmers.
Articles on Desegregation
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Many Black teachers were pushed out of classrooms from the 1950s through ‘70s. Despite new recruitment programs, the teacher workforce remains mostly white.
In December 2025, the statue of Barbara Rose Johns replaced that of Robert E. Lee as one of the two Virginians displayed in the U.S. Capitol. Here’s why.
The outer ring of suburbs is attracting more new residents − and they are richer and better educated.
As the nation marks the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board, one of its most significant side effects − the large-scale loss of Black teachers − continues to affect America’s schools.
Detroit is one of the country’s most segregated regions, but census data shows how that’s changing in both the city and suburbs.
A court long known for its landmark decisions expanding civil rights is now known for highly conservative rulings reining in government power.
As the nation approaches the 70-year anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, an education professor lays out the state of school segregation in America.
As a powerful branch of government, the Supreme Court has enormous power over public policy only if defendants comply with its rulings.
What’s at stake when Americans lose faith in the legitimacy of the Supreme Court?
When Rosa Parks was arrested for sitting in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Fred Gray was her lawyer. Now he’s being honored for a lifetime of civil rights advocacy.
The effort to give every student equal access to an education has lasted decades and may need even more time before the goal is reached.
Though the 1954 Brown v. Board ruling required the integration of public education, US schools remain separated by race.
In the early 1960s, the McDonogh 19 school was the site of fierce opposition to racial integration. The building is now owned by one of the Black girls who first integrated the school.
Local control over school funding leads to uneven resources between districts, two legal scholars maintain.
Despite widespread black poverty caused by unemployment, progress has been made towards the goal of a racially equal society.
Brown v. Board didn’t overrule ‘separate-but-equal’ but it had that end. A law scholar explains how there is a lesson there for conservatives on today’s Court looking to end abortion in the US.
Americans’ collective memory of school desegregation involves crowds of screaming white protesters. But less well known are the whites who stood by quietly, and those who approved of the changes.
Two scholars of inclusive education explain how segregated Black schools advocated for Black children in a way that’s often missing from today’s desegregated classrooms.
In the 1950s, Harlem mother Mae Mallory fought a school system that she saw as ‘just as Jim Crow’ as the one she had attended in the South.
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